Nightbreed

Last updated

Nightbreed
Nightbreedposter.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Clive Barker
Written byClive Barker
Based on Cabal
by Clive Barker
Produced by
Starring
Cinematography Robin Vidgeon
Edited by
Music by Danny Elfman
Production
company
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date
  • February 16, 1990 (1990-02-16)
Running time
102 minutes [1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$11 million
Box office$16 million [2]

Nightbreed is a 1990 American dark fantasy horror film written and directed by Clive Barker, based on his 1988 novella Cabal . It stars Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby, David Cronenberg, Charles Haid, Hugh Quarshie, and Doug Bradley. The film follows an unstable mental patient named Aaron Boone who is falsely led to believe by his doctor that he is a serial killer. Tracked down by the police, his doctor, and his girlfriend Lori, Boone eventually finds refuge in an abandoned cemetery called Midian among a tribe of monsters and outcasts known as the "Nightbreed" who hide from humanity.

Contents

At the time of its release, the film was a commercial and critical failure. In several interviews, Barker protested that the film company tried to sell it as a standard slasher film, [3] and that the powers-that-be had no real working knowledge of Nightbreed's story. [4] Since its initial theatrical release, Nightbreed has become a cult film. [5] [6]

Over time, Barker expressed disappointment with the final cut approved by the studio and always longed for the recovery of the reels so the film might be re-edited. In 2014, original film elements for the cut material were re-obtained and were edited into a director's cut, released through Scream Factory. [7]

Plot

Aaron Boone has recurring nightmares of a place called Midian. His girlfriend Lori Winston encourages him to resume psychotherapy with Dr. Phillip Decker. Meanwhile, a serial killer has been massacring entire families. When Boone returns to Decker's office, he is horrified to learn that his dreams mirror these ritualistic killings. Decker tells Boone to turn himself in and start taking lithium, but he actually gives Boone LSD.

Boone is hospitalized during the resulting trip. Another patient is ranting about Midian and explains where it is. When the patient peels his face off, Boone escapes from the hospital during the commotion and heads to Midian. All he finds there is a graveyard where he falls asleep. At night, he is confronted by monstrous beings who argue over whether he belongs there. Boone claims he is a murderer, but they know he is not. One of them tries to eat Boone, but he escapes.

Outside the graveyard, Boone is confronted by the police who have been led there by Dr. Decker. He tricks the police into shooting Boone. In the morgue, Boone is revived by the bite he received in the graveyard. He returns to Midian and learns about the Nightbreed who live there. He is inducted into their society through the blood of their deity Baphomet.

Lori follows Boone's path to Midian. She is followed there by Decker who is the serial killer. He framed Boone for the murders in an attempt to locate the Nightbreed. He tries to lure Boone out of Midian by using Lori, but Boone rescues her. The Nightbreed explain that they are just creatures from folklore who used to live in peace until humans tried to extinguish them. They banish Lori and Boone from Midian.

They check into a motel but find that Decker has been there and slaughtered people in the room next door. Boone is arrested for Decker's murders, and the doctor convinces the police to storm Midian. His ultimate goal is to destroy the Nightbreed.

While the police head to Midian, several Nightbreed break Boone out of jail and enlist his help. A chaotic battle ensues between the Nightbreed and the police. Decker confronts Boone and is killed. Boone seeks out Baphomet, and he explains that Boone has caused the end of Midian, which had been foretold. Baphomet charges Boone with finding a new home for the Nightbreed and renames him Cabal.

Determined to stay with Boone, Lori commits suicide and Boone resurrects her with a bite. He promises the Nightbreed that he will follow Baphomet's orders.

In the ruins of Midian, Ashberry stands in front of Decker's corpse and states that he wants vengeance on Baphomet and the Breed. When he presses Baphomet's blood to Decker's wound, Decker springs back to life with a scream as Ashberry repeatedly hollers "Hallelujah!".

Alternative endings

The Cabal Cut

In The Cabal Cut, the resurrection of Decker plays as a post-credits scene.

Director's Cut

In the alternative ending used in The Cabal Cut and Director's Cut of the film, Narcisse is killed earlier in the battle by Decker, so he is not present during the subsequent events. The Nightbreed await Boone in a barn whilst Boone says his goodbyes to Lori, as he must find a new home for the Nightbreed. Boone promises to return to her, but knowing that Boone will retain his youth and immortality as she grows old, Lori suddenly stabs herself, forcing Boone to resurrect her as a Nightbreed. They profess their love for one another and begin their journey.

Meanwhile, Captain Eigerman wanders the underground remains of the cemetery where he stumbles upon the transformed Ashberry, who longs for revenge after his burning by Baphomet. Eigerman shares this desire, but Ashberry rejects Eigerman's offer, kills him, and starts his hunt for the Nightbreed.

The surviving Nightbreed watch Boone and Lori in the distance. Rachel tells Babette that Boone will return soon, perhaps the next day, to lead them to a new haven. Boone and Lori now appear together as part of a prophecy in a Nightbreed painting.

Cast

Themes and interpretations

[Writer-director Clive] Barker, himself a gay man, makes his Nightbreed spectacularly queer, chiefly through its visual design and dishy repartee: the monsters sport leather, tattoos, body-piercings, shaved heads and/or pony-tails, Doc Marten boots, vests upon bare chests, and van dykes ("Satan beards" or "queer beards"), a look that was concurrently being made fashionable by Queer Nationalists, members of Act Up, and the visual stylizations of queer theatre pieces such as Reza Abdoh's Bogeyman.
— Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film (Inside Popular Film) by Harry M. Benshoff, 1997. [8]

Nightbreed has been characterized as containing themes related to queerness and the LGBT community. In 1997, author Harry M. Benshoff called it, "One of the first horror films to make an explicit connection between monsters and the activist politics of the queer community". [8]

Filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky called Nightbreed "the first truly gay horror fantasy epic", explaining how the unconsummated relationship between doctor and patient is in his view the central theme. [9] [10] In 2015, Tyler Coates of Decider called Jodorowsky's interpretation of the characters' relationship as being "only the tip of the iceberg and, I'd argue, a red herring"; Coates focuses instead on the presence of queer subtext "blatantly seen in the Nightbreed's culture", writing that, "Because normalcy is subjective and based solely on how the majority defines it, it's important to establish mini-societies and cultures with people like you." [11]

In 2019, Trace Thurman of Bloody Disgusting wrote that the Nightbreed as depicted in the film "represent queerness, or any fill-in-the-blank 'Other' you can think of." [12] Noting that, beyond writer-director Clive Barker being "one of the most famous queer horror artists of our time [...] The narrative itself is filled to the brim with queerness and serves as an allegory for intolerance. Can anyone watch Nightbreed and not automatically associate the titular creatures with queer people? They've been outcast by society and are deemed as dangerous by the 'normal' people. The climax of the film culminates in an assault on the Nightbreed's home base of Midian as the 'normies' would rather kill all of them as opposed to understand them." [12] That same year, Leigh Monson of Birth. Movies. Death. wrote that the director's cut of the film "places on display the full scope of a narrative that is a broad and potent allegory for the persecution of the queer community." [13]

In 2021, The A.V. Club 's Charles Bramesco also examined the presence of queer themes in the film's director's cut, writing that some of its homoerotic subtext was initially removed when executives at 20th Century Fox demanded that the film be trimmed during its post-production. [14] Bramesco argued, "They were blind to the subtext of this community as a home for misfits, where the placeless Boone—who doesn't seem all that interested in sex with his torch-singing girlfriend—can find an accepting family. The director's cut allows us more time with the creatures and ups their number, emphasizing that they're only fearsome to those afraid of difference." [14]

Production

Development

Barker always loved monsters and felt that "there's a corner of all of us that envies their powers and would love to live forever, or to fly, or to change shape at will. So, when I came to make a movie about monsters, I wanted to create a world we'd feel strangely at home in". [15] He was interested in creating a "horror mythology from the ground up" and developing characters that would live on in sequels. [16] As he finished writing the novella Cabal , he realized that it would make a good film that he would direct himself. [17] He originally envisioned a trilogy of films. [18] [19] Mark Frost wrote the initial draft of the screenplay for Barker. [20]

Nightbreed was the first of a planned three-picture deal Barker had with Morgan Creek, Joe Roth's production company, that included an adaptation of Son of Celluloid and a sequel to Nightbreed. The first compromise Barker made was to change the title of the film from Cabal to Nightbreed because Morgan Creek insisted on a more commercial title and thought that the original one did not mean anything. [21] He was given a budget of $11 million, which was a considerable increase from the $2 million he had to work with on Hellraiser . His goal was to make the Star Wars of horror films. The monsters in the book are represented impressionistically over two or three paragraphs and the challenge Barker faced was to visualize them in much greater detail for the film. [22]

Originally several of the creatures were supposed to be stop motion puppets, in addition to pixilation for the Boone and Peloquin transformation scenes, but make-up gradually replaced the puppets, and barely any of the stop motion made it till the finished movie. Animator Rory Fellowes said "The fact is we were too late for stopmotion and too early for CG". [23] [24]

Filming

For the film, Barker used three soundstages at Pinewood Studios shooting some scenes on location at Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, Berkshire, UK over several nights and in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. [16] Bob Keen and his crew had two months to play around with ideas before doing any modeling work. They used computer-controlled animatronics but only where necessary. [25] Towards the end of principal photography, Barker brought Star Wars concept artist Ralph McQuarrie in to paint mattes for the Necropolis sequences and design the history of the Breed in a symbolic way on an enormous mural across a 60-foot space on the set at Pinewood to be used in the opening credits. [26]

During an interview in 2022 on The Ghost of Hollywood, cinematographer Robin Vidgeon, mentioned that he disliked working with David Cronenberg, stating Cronenberg complained to Clive that he was being usurped. [27]

Barker was contractually obligated to deliver an R-rated film and could not make it as gory as his previous picture Hellraiser. [16] Barker previewed the first cut of Nightbreed with a temporary soundtrack that did not go well, as people were confused by the characters' motives. He made some changes and the second test screening was much more successful. However, the ending with Decker's death was not well received and Barker changed it. [28] In late July 1989, the studio pushed the release date for Nightbreed from its original autumn 1989 date to early February 1990 instead. The press release cited "the complex demands of the film's ground-breaking post-production optical effects", but this also included McQuarrie's mural and matte paintings, and a week of additional shooting in late August that would see key parts of the narrative re-shot. [26] Barker shot extra scenes over three days in Los Angeles in late 1989 which included additional scenes with David Cronenberg which expanded and clarified his character. Barker's original version ran two-and-a-half hours and Fox asked for almost an hour to be cut prompting editor Richard Marden to leave the project in protest. Nightbreed was cut to two hours and then again to 102 minutes. [28]

Soundtrack

Nightbreed (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Film score by
Danny Elfman
ReleasedMarch 20, 1990
Recorded1990
Genre Soundtrack
Length46:46
Label MCA
Producer Danny Elfman and Steve Bartek
Danny Elfman chronology
Batman
(1989)		Nightbreed (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
(1990)		Dick Tracy
(1990)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [29]
SoundtrackNet Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [30]
Filmtracks Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [31]
Musicfromthemovies(favorable) [32]

The score was composed by Danny Elfman and conducted by Shirley Walker, who also wrote the additional cue "Charge of the Berserkers" for the film's climax and received an onscreen credit. Elfman said of his score: "Once again it was time for me to stretch out... Combining dark/fun/sweet/tribal all into one. The great joy in the score for me, other than working for Clive Barker, was being able to use the children's voices and a whole slew of ethnic drums and instruments together with an orchestra, in an attempt to bring a unique musical tone to the film". [33] Barker said "Danny is an extraordinary talent. The most uncompromised portion of that entire movie is the score". [34]

In an article on Elfman, described as a rising composer in Hollywood who had just scored Tim Burton's Batman and was about to score Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy , Entertainment Weekly 's Ron Givens noted that Nightbreed wouldn't get as much attention as these two big-budget movies, yet Givens praised Elfman's "needle-sharp crescendos and creepy choral plainchants" and added: "Seldom has scary-movie music been so spiritual". [35]

The song "Country Skin" is a country-and-western rendition of the Oingo Boingo song "Skin" (which appears on the 1990 album Dark at the End of the Tunnel ), it was written by Elfman and performed by country singer Michael Stanton. [36] It can be heard in the film, played on a radio. [37] [38] It was available as a bonus track on the CD and cassette version of the soundtrack. [39]

Release

Marketing

According to Barker, the studio did not promote it well with posters that misinterpreted the content. When he saw the way they were selling Nightbreed, he freaked out and said: "What you doing? This isn't the movie, and was given all kinds of excuses ... Well, there isn't time to change it, we have to release it now". [40] The head of marketing at Morgan Creek never watched all the way through because it "disgusted and distressed" him, according to Barker. [40] The studio did not understand it, it had no movie stars, it was violent, [40] and it had elements of fantasy and horror which they saw as a weakness while Barker saw it as a strength. They ended up marketing Nightbreed as a slasher film with television teasers that were confusing and did not represent it. [41] The trailer was sent to the MPAA and it was rejected 12 times. They forbade any monster footage, and it was cut down to someone being terrorized with a razor, which constituted only five minutes of Barker's film. [28] Looking back, Barker realized that Fox was better at promoting films like White Men Can't Jump but "not so good at selling the quirky stuff". [42]

The studio argued that there was no point showing Nightbreed to critics because the people who see horror films do not read reviews. Therefore, the film had to be sold to the lowest common denominator. [43] They refused to preview the film for critics, a decision which angered Barker. [41]

Reception

Box office

Nightbreed was released on February 16, 1990, in 1,488 theaters, grossing $3.7 million on its opening weekend. It went on to make $8.8 million in the United States and Canada and $7 million internationally for a worldwide total of $16 million on an $11 million budget. [44] [2]

Critical response

Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports 51% of 35 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating was 5.6 out of 10. The site's consensus states: "Nightbreed's imaginative world-building and startling creature designs are no match for its clumsy, uneven plotting". [45] In his review for the Toronto Star , Henry Mietkiewicz wrote "Nightbreed might have been a monster movie milestone, if Clive Barker's directorial abilities had kept pace with his skill as a master of British horror fiction. Unfortunately, Nightbreed probably will be remembered as much for its haphazard plotting and underdeveloped characters as its delightfully daring concept". [46] Derek Malcolm wrote in his review for The Guardian that "it is neither direct nor subtle enough as a piece of film-making. It is difficult to suggest that evil is human and monsters have souls within the context of a mountain of special effects. The result is patchy in the extreme and not always capable of transcending a genre that has become less and less intriguing as less and less is left to the imagination". [47]

However, Entertainment Weekly 's Ty Burr gave the film a "B" rating, writing: "From the film's Gothic sets, fantastic makeup, and nightmarish plot line, it's clear that Barker owes as much to Poe and Lovecraft as to classic Hollywood screamers like Island of Lost Souls . But Barker's most perverse touch is that he makes these creatures the good guys (no wonder the PR flacks were bamboozled). Despite their grotesque appearance, they're a more colorful and engaging bunch than the emissaries of the normal world. Barker piles on more subversive subtext than his story can bear — it's a monster movie, after all — but his daft, Grand Guignol vision has real power. The quality that freaked out the studio, Barker's ambition, is precisely what makes Nightbreed so impressive". [48]

Accolades

AwardCategoryRecipients and nomineesOutcome
Saturn Awards [49] Best Horror FilmNightbreedNominated
Best DirectorClive BarkerNominated
Best Make-UpBob Keen, Geoffrey PortassNominated
Best DVD/BD Special Edition ReleaseNightbreed: The Director's Cut - Mark Alan Miller [50] Won
Amsterdam Fantastic Film FestivalSilver Scream AwardClive BarkerWon
Avoriaz Fantastic Film FestivalSpecial Jury AwardClive BarkerWon
Fantasporto Critics' AwardClive BarkerWon
International Fantasy Film AwardBest Film – Clive BarkerNominated

Merchandise

Comic books

In 1990, to tie in with the film's box office release, Epic Comics produced a four-issue adaptation of the film, which included significant differences from the finished movie, more closely related to Clive Barker's original script. The comic book continued to run past the end of the film, ultimately stretching to twenty-five issues before it was cancelled. [51] [52] The comic book was initially written by Alan Grant and John Wagner and drawn by Jim Baikie. [53]

A two part graphic novel was also produced, Hellraiser vs Nightbreed: Jihad, which merges the two worlds created by Clive Barker and features the Cenobites as agents of order against their chaotic nemesis the Nightbreed, and the Jihad (Holy War) of extermination that the first wage on the latter. [54] [55]

Nightbreed returned in 1992, as a short story in the second issue of the four issue Epic anthology series. [56]

A 12 issue mini-series was published by BOOM! Studios in 2014-2015 following the storyline of the Director's Cut of the film. [57]

Video games

Two video games based on the film were released shortly after the movie. The games were intended to form a trilogy [58] but due to the poor performance of the first two the third was never made. [59] Nightbreed, The Action Game was released for the Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, and MS-DOS. [60] [61] [62] Clive Barker's Nightbreed: The Interactive Movie was released for the Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS. [63] [64]

Legacy

TV series

Morgan Creek reportedly began developing a television series based on the original film in 2014. [65] [66] In the following year, Morgan Creek announced the sale of the domestic rights to its library of 78 films, but the production company plans to retain the TV rights to Nightbreed. [67] In June 2018, Syfy, Morgan Creek and Barker teamed up to develop the series. [68] It is being written by Josh Stolberg and directed by Michael Dougherty for SyFy. [69] [70]

The Cabal Cut

In 2009, Mark Miller, co-head of Barker's production company, Seraphim Films, helped track down the missing footage that was cut out of the director's cut of Nightbreed. [71] Miller discovered, after talking to a production executive at the studio, that the footage was never actually lost but readily accessible. When asked, a studio executive said that there was not a big enough audience to warrant the studio spending money on a new, extended cut of the film. [72] A VHS copy of Barker's 145-minute version of the film's mid-1989 workprint was discovered. It did not feature any of the re-shoots of Decker's murders. [73] An extended 159-minute cut version, from another VHS found in July 2009, premiered on March 27, 2010, as part of the HorrorHound Weekend in Indianapolis. [74] This new version adds almost an hour that was cut from the theatrical release, including a song sung by Lori, and more animation. Barker said that he hopes to bring back Danny Elfman to add more music. [34]

In early 2012, Russell Cherrington, a senior lecturer in film and video production at the University of Derby, created a composite cut of the film using the footage found on both VHS tapes and a DVD then recently released by Warner Archive Collection, Warner's made-to-order DVD service. This version is the most complete version of Barker's film available and has been dubbed The Cabal Cut. The cut runs 155 minutes long and was shown at that year's "Mad Monster Party" in North Carolina with actors Craig Sheffer and Anne Bobby attending. [75]

The "Mad Monster Party" projection of the Cabal Cut led to a renewal of interest among fans, especially on the Internet. [76] A new petition was created and social networks were used to raise awareness for the extended cut and to encourage producers to release it. This would be colloquially known as "Occupy Midian", a term coined by actress Anne Bobby. [77]

A Blu-Ray release of the "Cabal Cut" was announced on July 13, 2017, via the Clive Barker Podcast. [78] This release utilized then-restored footage from the Director's Cut and the pre-existing VHS copies, for a total length of 145 minutes. The release features new material and commentary tracks exclusive to that release. Handled by Morgan Creek and Seraphim Films, the Cabal Cut Blu-Ray was released in a limited quantity through Clive Barker's online store.

Shout! Factory restoration and Director's Cut

In 2013, Shout! Factory released The Cabal Cut on DVD. [79] [80] This version was later clarified to be a brand new director's cut that uses the footage and not the full Cabal Cut. [81]

Shout! Factory released The Director's Cut Blu-ray in 2014. This version, overseen by Clive Barker, runs twenty minutes longer than the theatrical version and contains forty minutes of new and altered footage. [82] Shout, with Morgan Creek Entertainment, located the original film elements in the Warner archives to newly restore the sequences. Barker said, "when Scream Factory told me that they found the Nightbreed film footage, I was gob-smacked! This is the ultimate validation of choices made by myself and Mark Miller all the way back in 2008". [83] Shout later published a Special Edition Blu-ray / DVD combo pack and a 3-disc limited edition Blu-ray, containing a booklet and the theatrical cut. When the limited edition sold out during pre-orders, Shout! doubled their production run. [84]

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Clive Barker</span> English author, film director and visual artist

Clive Barker is an English novelist who came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories, the Books of Blood, which established him as a leading horror writer. He has since written many novels and other works. His fiction has been adapted into films, notably the Hellraiser series, the first installment of which he also wrote and directed, and the Candyman series. He was also an executive producer of the film Gods and Monsters, which won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

<i>Hellraiser</i> 1987 film by Clive Barker

Hellraiser is a 1987 British supernatural horror film written and directed by Clive Barker, and produced by Christopher Figg, based on Barker's 1986 novella The Hellbound Heart. The film marked Barker's directorial debut. Its plot involves a mystical puzzle box that summons the Cenobites, a group of extra-dimensional, sadomasochistic beings who cannot differentiate between pain and pleasure. The leader of the Cenobites is portrayed by Doug Bradley, and identified in the sequels as "Pinhead".

<i>Gods and Monsters</i> (film) 1998 film

Gods and Monsters is a 1998 period drama film written and directed by Bill Condon, based on Christopher Bram's 1995 novel Father of Frankenstein. The film stars Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser, Lynn Redgrave, Lolita Davidovich, and David Dukes. Its plot is a partly fictionalized account of the last days of the life of film director James Whale (McKellen), known for directing Frankenstein (1931) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935). A veteran of World War I, the aged Whale develops a complicated relationship with his gardener, Clayton Boone (Fraser), a fictitious character originally created by Bram for the source novel.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Morgan Creek Entertainment</span> American film studio

Morgan Creek Entertainment is an American film production company, former sales agent and investor, that has released box-office hits including Young Guns, Dead Ringers, Major League, True Romance, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Crush, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and The Last of the Mohicans. The studio was co-founded in 1987 by James G. Robinson and Joe Roth. Robinson leads the company as chairman and CEO. His two sons, Brian Robinson and David C. Robinson, run the day-to-day operations. The company name comes from Roth's favorite film, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek. Their most recent film is The Exorcist: Believer, which was released on October 6, 2023.

<i>Midian</i> (album) 2000 studio album by Cradle of Filth

Midian is the fourth studio album by English extreme metal band Cradle of Filth. It was released on 30 October 2000, through Music for Nations. The album marks the return of guitarist Paul Allender to the band, as well as the introduction of drummer Adrian Erlandsson and keyboard player Martin Powell. It also features Doug Bradley as the narrator for various songs.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Doug Bradley</span> English actor and author

Douglas William Bradley is an English actor and author, best known for his role as the lead Cenobite "Pinhead" in the Hellraiser film series and for narration on various Cradle of Filth albums.

<i>Candyman</i> (1992 film) American supernatural horror film by Bernard Rose

Candyman is a 1992 American gothic supernatural horror film, written and directed by Bernard Rose and starring Virginia Madsen, Tony Todd, Xander Berkeley, Kasi Lemmons, and Vanessa E. Williams. Based on Clive Barker's short story "The Forbidden", the film follows a Chicago graduate student completing a thesis on urban legends and folklore, which leads her to the legend of the "Candyman", the ghost of an African-American artist and the son of a slave who was murdered in the late 19th century for his relationship with the daughter of a wealthy white man.

<i>Lord of Illusions</i> 1995 film

Lord of Illusions is a 1995 American neo-noir supernatural horror film written and directed by Clive Barker, based on his own short story The Last Illusion published in 1985 in the anthology Books of Blood Volume 6. The same story introduced Barker's occult detective Harry D'Amour, who later appeared in several prose stories and comic books. Lord of Illusions is D'Amour's first onscreen appearance, with the character portrayed by actor Scott Bakula. Other actors appearing in the film include Kevin J. O'Connor, Famke Janssen and Daniel von Bargen. The story features D'Amour, who has had several experiences with the supernatural, embarking on an investigation involving a stage illusionist named Swann and a cult led by a sorcerer named Nix.

<i>Cabal</i> (novella) Novella by Clive Barker

Cabal is a 1988 horror novella by the British author Clive Barker. It was originally published in the United States as part of a collection comprising a novel and several short stories from Barker's sixth and final volume of the Books of Blood.

Craig Eric Sheffer is an American film and television actor. He is known for his leading roles as Norman Maclean in the film A River Runs Through It, Aaron Boone in the film Nightbreed, Joe Kane in the film The Program, and Keith Scott on the television series One Tree Hill.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nightbane</span> Tabletop role-playing game and campaign setting

Nightbane is a dark fantasy role-playing game and setting created by C. J. Carella and published by Palladium Books.

<i>Hellraiser</i> (franchise) Horror franchise

Hellraiser is a British-American horror media franchise that consists of eleven films, as well as various comic books, and additional merchandise and media. Based on the novella The Hellbound Heart by English author Clive Barker, the franchise centers around the Cenobites which includes the primary antagonist named Pinhead.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Barbie Wilde</span> Canadian-born actress and writer (born 1960)

Barbie Wilde is a Canadian-born British actress and writer, perhaps best known for appearing as the Female Cenobite in Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988) – the second of ten Hellraiser films based on Clive Barker's novella, The Hellbound Heart.

Vindication is independent film maker Bart Mastronardi's feature length psychological horror film, based on his award-winning short. The film is a morality tale about a young man whose attempt at suicide fails causing his guilt to manifest into reality.

Nicholas Vince is an actor, writer, and film maker who was born in West Germany and lives in South London. He trained at Mountview Theatre Academy, and shortly after graduating he met Clive Barker, modeling for him and later being cast as The Chatterer Cenobite in Hellraiser in 1987 and in its sequel Hellbound: Hellraiser II in 1988. He subsequently played Kinski in Barker's 1990 film Nightbreed. Since 2016 he's been Patron of the London Horror Festival, the UK's original and largest festival of live horror performance. In 2016 he was awarded the "London Horror Society Award for Outstanding Contribution to UK Independent Horror" and in 2018 a "Lifetime of Torment Award" at Texas Frightmare.

Anne Marie Bobby is an American actress, voice artist, playwright and author, best known for her role as Lori Winston, the heroine in Clive Barker's Nightbreed and Brigid Tenenbaum in the BioShock series. She was praised by The Washington Post for her portrayal of Tallasse in What the Deaf Man Heard (1997). The Los Angeles Times called Bobby's Tallasse "a sensitive, insightful portrayal."

<i>Clive Barkers Nightbreed: The Interactive Movie</i> 1990 video game

Clive Barker's Nightbreed: The Interactive Movie is a 1990 arcade adventure video game developed by Impact Software and published by Ocean Software on Atari ST and DOS. It is based on Clive Barker's movie Nightbreed, which in turn is based on Barker's novella Cabal. It was originally supposed to be part of a trilogy, alongside Clive Barker's Nightbreed: The Action Game and an ultimately-unreleased RPG.

<i>Hellraiser</i> (2022 film) Film directed by David Bruckner

Hellraiser is a 2022 supernatural horror film directed by David Bruckner, with a screenplay by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski, from a screen story they co-wrote with David S. Goyer. It is a reboot of the Hellraiser franchise, the eleventh installment overall, and a second adaptation of the 1986 novella The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker, which was adapted into the 1987 film Hellraiser. The film stars Odessa A'zion, Jamie Clayton, Adam Faison, Drew Starkey, Brandon Flynn, Aoife Hinds, Jason Liles, Yinka Olorunnife, Selina Lo, Zachary Hing, Kit Clarke, Goran Višnjić, and Hiam Abbass. It follows a young woman recovering from addiction who ends up with a mechanical puzzle box that can summon the Cenobites, humanoid beings who thrive on pain being pleasure.

References

  1. ↑ "Nightbreed (18)". British Board of Film Classification . May 21, 1990. Retrieved February 10, 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Morgan Creek Prods. Box Office". Variety . February 15, 1993. p. 46.
  3. ↑ Timpone, Anthony (1990). "Barker Bites Back". Fangoria Horror Spectacular (1). Retrieved March 22, 2012.
  4. ↑ Salisbury, Mark (October 1990). "Flesh And Fury". Fear (22).
  5. ↑ Black, Amber; Trautmann, Tim (1996). "Interview". The Official Clive Barker Resource: Revelations. Retrieved March 22, 2012. The movie has, and this is wonderful, you know, a lot of fans. And it's a cult movie and it's a real pleasure to me.
  6. ↑ Halley, Stefan. "10 Films that have gone from Crap to Cult". Eat Sleep Live Film. Archived from the original on November 23, 2012. Retrieved March 22, 2012.
  7. ↑ "Films Still To Come...?". The Official Clive Barker Resource: Revelations. Archived from the original on May 12, 2005. Retrieved March 22, 2012.
  8. 1 2 Benshoff, Harry M. (1997). Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film. Inside Popular Film. Manchester University Press. p. 260. ISBN   978-0793837557.
  9. ↑ Between Death and the Devil: The Unofficial Richard Stanley Website - Dying Light: An obituary for the great British horror movie (originally appeared in British Horror Cinema, 2001) everythingisundercontrol.org on Wayback Machine
  10. ↑ "Lachrymae - The Trail of the Three Mothers". Shadowtheatre13.com. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
  11. ↑ Coates, Tyler (January 27, 2015). "Is Clive Barker's 'Nightbreed' A "Gay Horror Fantasy Epic"?". Decider . Retrieved September 2, 2022.
  12. 1 2 Thurman, Trace (April 24, 2019). "[Horror Queers] The Inherent Queerness of Clive Barker's 'Nightbreed'". Bloody Disgusting . Retrieved September 2, 2022.
  13. ↑ Monson, Leigh (April 16, 2019). "Queer Underworld: Nightbreed: The Director's Cut". Birth. Movies. Death. Retrieved September 2, 2022.
  14. 1 2 Bramesco, Charles (March 15, 2021). "Clive Barker's cut of Nightbreed was too opulently homoerotic for the studio". The A.V. Club . Retrieved September 2, 2022.
  15. ↑ Barker, Clive (December 1988). "Chains of Love". Fear.
  16. 1 2 3 Nutman, Philip (1991). "Introduction to Nightbreed". Nightbreed U.S. Video (Media notes). Clive Barker.
  17. ↑ "Nightbreed Presskit". Morgan Creek. 1990.
  18. ↑ Salisbury, Mark (December 1988). "Chains of Love". Fear.
  19. ↑ "Nightbreed « The Life and Art of Vern". Outlawvern.com. June 24, 2010. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
  20. ↑ Bushman, David. Conversations With Mark Frost: Twin Peaks, Hill Street Blues, and the Education of a Writer. Fayetteville Mafia Press, 2020, p. 83.
  21. ↑ Jones, Alan (November 1989). "Clive Barker's Nightbreed". Cinefantastique .
  22. ↑ Nutman, Philip (October 1989). "Bring on the Monsters!". Fangoria .
  23. ↑ Nightbreed - Production Memories
  24. ↑ Revelations - Nightbreed scene 3
  25. ↑ Robb, Brian J (May–June 1989). "Games without Frontiers". Fear.
  26. 1 2 Gilbert, John (October 1989). "The Breed: The Source of the Soul". Fear.
  27. ↑ "Season Two". The Ghost of Hollywood. Retrieved March 4, 2022.
  28. 1 2 3 Jones, Alan (September 1990). "Nightbreed: The Trials and Tribulations of Clive Barker". Starburst .
  29. ↑ McDonald, Steven. "Nightbreed" . Retrieved March 22, 2012.
  30. ↑ Viewer Ratings. "Nightbreed". Soundtrack.net. Retrieved March 22, 2012.
  31. ↑ Viewer Ratings. "Nightbreed". Filmtracks.com. Retrieved March 22, 2012.
  32. ↑ "Nightbreed". Musicfromthemovies.com. Retrieved March 22, 2012.
  33. ↑ "Danny Elfman Says..." Danny Elfman's Music For A Darkened People. Retrieved March 21, 2012.
  34. 1 2 "Q&A session with Clive Barker & Peter Atkins". 5th Annual LA Times Festival of Books April 29th, 2000. Clivebarker.com. Retrieved March 22, 2012.
  35. ↑ Givens, Ron (February 23, 1990). "The Elfman Cometh". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved March 21, 2012.
  36. ↑ Mattro. "Skin". Song Histories: Officially released tracks. Fool's Paradise: A Tribute to Oingo Boingo. Archived from the original on August 13, 2009. Retrieved March 21, 2012.
  37. ↑ Elfman, Danny. "Oingo Boingo: The Complete History". Buzzinemusic.com. Archived from the original on October 30, 2013. Retrieved March 21, 2012.
  38. ↑ "Nightbreed - Trivia". Imdb.com. Retrieved March 21, 2012.
  39. ↑ "MCA Records MCAD 8037". Nightbreed- Soundtrack details. Soundtrackcollector.com. Retrieved March 21, 2012.
  40. 1 2 3 Salisbury, Mark (October 1990). "Flesh and Fury". Fear.
  41. 1 2 Timpone, Anthony (1990). "Barker Bites Back". Fangoria Horror Spectacular.
  42. ↑ Ferrante, Anthony C (September 1993). "Barker Looks Back". Bloody Best of Fangoria.
  43. ↑ Jones, Alan (July 1990). "How Fox Bungled Nightbreed". Cinefantastique .
  44. ↑ "Nightbreed (1990)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved March 22, 2012.
  45. ↑ "Nightbreed (1990)". Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved August 10, 2023.
  46. ↑ Mietkiewicz, Henry (February 20, 1990). "Nightbreeds storytelling sacrificed". The Toronto Star .
  47. ↑ Malcolm, Derek (September 27, 1990). "The angel who fell to earth". The Guardian .
  48. ↑ Ty Burr (September 14, 1990). "Nightbreed Review | Reviews and News". EW.com. Archived from the original on June 23, 2013. Retrieved July 8, 2011.
  49. ↑ "The Academy of Science Fiction Fantasy and Horror Films". www.saturnawards.org. Archived from the original on June 26, 2012. Retrieved October 20, 2015.
  50. ↑ "Clive Barker - Timeline Photos | Facebook". www.facebook.com. Retrieved October 20, 2015.
  51. ↑ do web 4u. "Night Breed Comics, Night Breed series, Clive Barker, Epic Comics, Horror series". Fullmooncomicbooks.com. Archived from the original on February 12, 2010. Retrieved July 8, 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  52. ↑ "Aaron Boone (comic book character)". Comicvine.com. Retrieved July 8, 2011.
  53. ↑ "Jim Baikie".
  54. ↑ "Hellraiser Nightbreed: Jihad #1 - (comic book issue)". Comic Vine. June 6, 2008. Retrieved July 8, 2011.
  55. ↑ "Mile High Comics". Mile High Comics. Retrieved July 8, 2011.
  56. ↑ "Put a Nightbreed in your tank, Clive Barker's Hellraiser, Imajica - song, music - Copyright Info". Faqs.org. Retrieved July 8, 2011.
  57. ↑ "Clive Barker's Nightbreed returns in a brand new comic-book series". Blastr. Archived from the original on November 17, 2015. Retrieved November 13, 2015.
  58. ↑ "Clive Barker's Nightbreed: The Interactive Movie (Game)". Giant Bomb. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
  59. ↑ "Night Breed: The Interactive Movie download - PC Game". Squakenet.com. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
  60. ↑ "Clive Barker's Nightbreed: The Action Game". GameSpot. December 31, 1990. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
  61. ↑ "Clive Barker's Nightbreed: The Action Game (Game)". Giant Bomb. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
  62. ↑ "Your Sinclair: Nightbreed". Archived from the original on March 2, 2007. Retrieved January 22, 2007.
  63. ↑ "Clive Barker's Nightbreed: The Interactive Movie for PC". GameFAQs. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
  64. ↑ "Clive Barker's Nightbreed: The Interactive Movie". GameSpot. December 31, 1990. Archived from the original on July 5, 2015. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
  65. ↑ Restored Nightbreed Cut Gets DVD Release. 'The Cabal Cut' is finally official - by Owen Williams July 23, 2013, Empire Online
  66. ↑ Clive Barker Plotting Nightbreed For TV. Hellraiser headed for small screen too - by Owen Williams 04 April 2012, Empire Online
  67. ↑ "Morgan Creek to Put Film Library Up for Sale". The Hollywood Reporter. September 24, 2015. Retrieved November 10, 2015.
  68. ↑ "'Nightbreed' TV Series Reboot From Clive Barker & Morgan Creek In Works At Syfy". Deadline. June 22, 2018. Retrieved June 22, 2018.
  69. ↑ Andreeva, Nellie (June 22, 2018). "'Nightbreed' TV Series Reboot From Clive Barker & Morgan Creek In Works At Syfy". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved October 24, 2020.
  70. ↑ Hermans, Grant (September 30, 2020). "Exclusive: Godzilla's Michael Dougherty to Direct Nightbreed Series!". Coming Soon. Retrieved October 24, 2020.
  71. ↑ Barton, Steve (April 1, 2010). "Nightbreed Uncut Report: Wondering What You Didn't See? We've Got the Answers!". DreadCentral.com. Retrieved April 12, 2012.
  72. ↑ Zahn, James (June 1, 2009). "Nightbreed: The Director's Cut?". Fangoria. Archived from the original on June 12, 2009.
  73. ↑ Zahn, James (June 10, 2009). "Update on the Director's Cut of Nightbreed". Fangoria. Archived from the original on June 19, 2009.
  74. ↑ Barton, Steve (February 4, 2010). "See Nightbreed Uncut for the First Time Ever". DreadCentral.com. Retrieved April 12, 2012.
  75. ↑ Snellings, April; Ron McKenzie (March 21, 2012). "Seraphim's Mark Miller on Nightbreed: The Director's Cut". Rue Morgue. Archived from the original on March 24, 2012. Retrieved April 12, 2012.
  76. ↑ Turek, Ryan. "Join Occupy Midian and the Push for a Nightbreed: The Cabal Cut Release!". Shocktillyoudrop.com. Retrieved April 13, 2012.
  77. ↑ Leitao, Jose (April 12, 2012). "The Cabal Cut Viral Trailer hits YouTube!". The Clive Barker Podcast. Retrieved April 13, 2012. "Occupy Midian" was a name thought up by Anne Bobby during an interview with the Clive Barker Podcast. This group aims to work in close co-operation with the creative people currently restoring the film.
  78. ↑ "CABAL CUT To Be Released On Blu-Ray!". Clive Barker Podcast. July 13, 2017. Retrieved July 13, 2017.
  79. ↑ Michael Plumides talks about Nightbreed: The Cabal Cut Dread Central
  80. ↑ Zimmerman, Samuel. "[SDCC '13] Scream Factory releasing "Nightbreed: The Cabal Cut" & more!". Fangoria. Archived from the original on July 23, 2013. Retrieved July 21, 2013.
  81. ↑ Turek, Ryan (February 2, 2014). "The Upcoming Nightbreed Special Edition is Not The Cabal Cut". ShockTillYouDrop.com. Retrieved September 4, 2014.
  82. ↑ "Scream Factory Facebook – Final Specs For Nightbreed: The Directors Cut Revealed!". Facebook . Archived from the original on February 26, 2022.
  83. ↑ Squires, John (February 4, 2010). "Full Release Details for Scream Factory's Nightbreed Director's Cut Blu-ray". DreadCentral.com. Retrieved April 12, 2012.
  84. ↑ "Scream Factory Facebook – Nightbreed: Limited Edition – Now 10,000 Units". Facebook .

Further reading

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.